UPDATE: Phillip Martin of the progressive activist group Progress Texas said: “Hotze’s lawsuit appears to be a copy-cat lawsuit of one already filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation. As the Department …

The state has paid fewer January claims for low-income women to receive services through a high-profile health-care program so far this year than it had at the same point in 2012, according to figures …

Expanding Medicaid could make available $900 million in state general revenue funds that otherwise would be slated for health care as lawmakers work to pay for state priorities, according to a report …